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Updated Oct. 2, 1998 12:52 a.m. ET

THE EVOLUTION OF JANE

By Cathleen Schine (Houghton Mifflin, 210 pages, $24)

T hings could be better for 25-year-old Jane Barlow Schwartz. First she was dumped by her best friend. Now she's been dumped by her "young and stupid" husband "for someone equally young and stupid." Her response: shedding a few tears and devouring a bowl of leftover spaghetti. Her mother's response: "Off you go!. . . Off to...